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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (247343)	11/5/2007 10:37:00 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Usually it's best if one presents facts that don't support a particular idea in order to get the person who believes in the unsupported idea to leave it alone to die a quiet death. That didn't work for you. No idea what you're trying to say here. Singapore has higher population density than would an independent Gaza, so the fact is that population density of Gaza does not, in and of itself, make an independent Gaza unviable. If the Singaporean Chinese diaspora can build a viable nation in a more densely populated area, there's no reason (based solely on land mass) that the Palestinians of Gaza cant. So the answer is no, the population density and the amputation from the Palestinian majority on the West Bank would make a viable state close to impossible. Uhmmm, you haven't provided the reasons for that conclusion. My question is.....why not? If Chinese diaspora of Singapore can build a successful nation amputated from the Chinese majority of China and in a more dense land mass than present day Gaza, why can't the Pals of Gaza do the same IF THEY CHOOSE TO? Why are they (in your mind) less capable than the Singaporeans? At some point Gaza would explode and Israel would go in and take over. If the people of Gaza choose education and work rather than the destruction of Israel as a goal, why do they have to "explode"? You want the topic to die a quiet death, but it shouldn't. The people of Gaza have the opportunity today without foreign "permission" to attempt to build a viable nation at peace with their neighbors. In fact, were they to pursue it, most of the world (with the exception on the non-Gaza Pals and the nations that harbor them) would support the effort. Or, if you have some reason that the people of Gaza cannot achieve what the people of Singapore have achieved, please share it. "Just because" and "they will explode" are not reasons.